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Friday, August 3, 2007

Creatively Coping: Preemie Prayer Pockets

Laurie Anderson of Southern Stitches has created a beautiful idea for NICU Parents and their family and friends. You can create a Preemie Prayer Pocket as a gift for parents, family, friends and nurses to wear and think about your baby or other NICU babies. It is a wonderful idea of creatively coping with the NICU.

Preemie Prayer PocketThe tiny footprints on the design were taken from a 14-week old baby weighing 3 oz. You can download the instructions on her website. Follow the directions to create the pocket, enclose the preemie prayer, or any other message.

To simply attach a pin to the back for wearing, or use baby diaper pins if you want something more decorative.

The Prayer for the Preemie PocketPreemie Prayer Pockets have an prayer enclosed within the pocket.

Prayer for the Prayer PocketIf you have worries, fears and tears for this tiny baby, held so dear,just tuck them in this little heart…Angels will take them to God aboveand He will comfort you with His healing love.When you come back later and peek inside.You will see there's nothing left to hide…for God's love will forever abide.

Once you get the Preemie Pocket Prayer, you can write down your own concerns and stick them in the pocket.

Note:The preemie patterns are to be used only for charity sewing for preemies, no sales are allowed.The designs and instructions themselves are copyrighted and all rights remain with Laurie Anderson/Southern Stitches

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Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS, FT is a respected physician, health educator, professor, author and former NICU Parent. She uses different identities Comfortdoc, Griefdoc, Momdoc, Professordoc, Nutritiondoc and Wellbeingmd depending on the circumstance. Since 1997 she has served the grieving Internet community with the Journey of Hearts website. She keeps several blogs on a variety of topics.

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Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS, FT is a respected physician, an expert in life challenges, loss, grief and bereavement, professional health educator, professor, lecturer and author.Dr. Dyer is the Domain Designer for the Journey of Hearts website, created in 1997 as the first and only physician-based website devoted to educating people about the normal grief response. Dr. Dyer is also a former NICU Parent, author of the Free e-Book For Those Who Hold the Smallest Hands and founder of the NICU Parent Support Site, http://www.nicuparentsupport.org.

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